When hybridity breeds contempt: negative hybrid peace in Cambodia

Dahlia Simangan

Third World Quarterly, 2018, vol. 39, issue 8, 1525-1542

Abstract: This paper examines the unresolved tensions from international/liberal-local encounters during Cambodia’s post-conflict peacebuilding in the areas of governance and justice. The quick introduction but weak implementation of international/liberal norms and institutions enabled the local elite to contextualise, negotiate, resist and reject those international/liberal norms and institutions to preserve an elite-centred status quo. The outcome of these international/liberal-local encounters is a negative hybrid peace in which peace is neither liberal nor emancipatory. The analysis in this paper contributes to the discussion on hybridity in peacebuilding by describing the characteristics, explaining the formation process and tracing the long-term consequences of negative hybrid peace.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1438184

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